The magistrate of Qufu has been served as the Kong family since the Tang Dynasty, because "the descendants of saints should not be dominated by others."

However, the one who really allowed the Kong family to inherit the magistrate of Qufu was the Jin Dynasty, and later the Mongol Yuan followed this system. The Ming Dynasty was established, and Emperor Hongwu changed "hereditary" to a vocation, and stipulated that the magistrate of Qufu would still be the surname Kong, but the wise and virtuous Kong family should be recommended by Yansheng Gong to be sent to the Ministry of Personnel for election and imperial edicts to the rear, which made Qufu magistrate no longer "occupied" by Yansheng Gong's Mansion.

Kong Yuanqing, the current magistrate of Qufu, was a juren. Last year, he was recommended by Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi as the 47th magistrate of Qufu. However, after taking office, Kong Yuanqing only did one thing, that is, to worship the dragon throne of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun at the Confucius Temple with Yansheng Gong, and to offer 120 horses and pay 10,000 taels of silver to the Dashun army who had not yet entered the capital a thousand and one hundred miles away.

Li Zicheng, who was still in Changping at that time, heard that Yan Shenggong of Qufu sent people to surrender, was quite confused because the Yongchang Emperor, who was a peasant, did not know what Yan Shenggong was.

After Niu Jinxing was excited to explain, Li Zicheng was of course happy and ordered a special person to make a new Yansheng Duke Seal to send it to Qufu through Henan.

On the day when the new seal of the Dashunyan Shenggong arrived, when Jinan, Jining and other places were still "Meiji", Kong Yinzhi openly ordered the change of flags to surrender. At the same time, he knelt at the Confucius Temple with the magistrate Kong Yuanqing and the various personnel of the Kong family to welcome the edict of Emperor Yongchang at the Confucius Temple, and knelt on his knees to receive the letter of the Dashun seal.

Bo Wenyanjie, the leader of Qufu, participated from beginning to end. This family background is also very prominent. He is a descendant of Wen Tianxiang, a national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Futangzu, Jiangxi. Later, he moved to Sichuan with his father. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, he passed the provincial examination and was named a marquis in the Ministry of Personnel.

Although the magistrate of Qufu was recommended by Yansheng Gong as a virtuous and virtuous person, he was the magistrate of the emperor and the second official of the dictionary and historian were still sent by the Ministry of Personnel. The so-called "transferred officials" also meant that the generals of the big and small.

Wen Yanjie, the head of the Bo, took office for a shorter time than Kong Yuanqing, the magistrate. He just came from the capital in February and brought a set of second-rank official uniforms to Yansheng Gongfu.

At the beginning of the year, the 53-year-old Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi felt that he had not had enough time, so he submitted to the court to the court for his eldest son Kong Xingxie to grant his second-rank official uniform. At that time, Li Zicheng's army began to march eastward. Due to the plague in Beijing, countless people died in Beijing, and people were in panic inside and outside. However, after receiving the letter from Kong Yinzhi, Chongzhen still ordered the Ministry of Rites to send Kong Xingxie's second-rank official uniform to Qufu to Qufu. Wen Yanjie was replaced by the Ministry of Personnel, and this set of official uniforms was brought together by him.

Wen Yanjie did not object to the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty and surrendering Shun, because he saw starving people everywhere on the way to Shandong from the capital. In addition, Li Zicheng's Dashun had become a state of greatness. If the establishment of the new dynasty was sure to rectify people's livelihood, so he worked with the magistrate Kong Yuanqing to help the Confucius Mansion plan for surrender.

But what Wen Yanjie did not expect was that recently there was news that the Manchus outside the pass entered the pass and stole the capital, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army went west to Shanxi and Shaanxi. This incident not only made Wen Yanjie anxious, but also caught Kong Yinzhi, who had already submitted a surrender, and he had also caught him off guard. In recent days, he had been discussing with the head of the Confucius Mansion.

Wen Yanjie estimated that the Confucius Mansion would be very likely to return to enlightenment. Now it depends on when the Yan Shenggong moved Li Zicheng's dragon position away from the Confucius Temple.

On that day, Wen Yanjie, who was working in the yamen, got the notice from the magistrate Kong Yuanqing of the county and asked him to go to the Kong Mansion together. Wen Yanjie guessed that most of the Kong Mansion had made up his mind, so he handed over the matter to the minor officials below, changed his clothes to meet the magistrate Kong. On the way, he saw several yamen runners beating a farmer with sticks.

The farmer's clothes were smashed, and he couldn't stop twitching and begging for mercy, looking very pitiful.

Seeing that the farmer was loyal and did not look like a crime, Wen Yanjie asked the yamen runner what he had done.

One of the yamen runners said, "The master of the remarks is a slut. This unruly man dared to pick up branches in Konglin! The prince said that he violated the holy vein and asked the yamen to punish him well! Now, the county magistrate asked us to deal with him."

"Konglin" is the cemetery of Confucius and his descendants. It is collectively known as the "Three Kongs" along with Confucius Mansion and Confucius Temple. It covers a huge area and has been buried in Confucius For all dynasties.

However, how could the people just pick up some branches in Konglin and become an invasion of the holy vein?

Wen Yanjie couldn't figure it out, so he asked the yamen runner to stop.

Seeing this, the farmer quickly called for justice, saying that there was no firewood at home, and the surrounding mountains and forests were all occupied by the Gongfu. The people wanted to buy firewood from the Kongfu. His family was really poor. Thinking of the many branches that fell in the Kong forest last year, they wanted to pick up some of them and cook the pot, but they didn't dare to have the idea of ​​infringing on the holy vein.

After hearing this, Wen Yanjie knew about what was going on. Yan Shenggong Mansion was very domineering in Qufu. Not only did he bully men and women, he also circled mountains and occupied land everywhere.

It is said that Mount Ni in the county is where the saints were born from the sky and the mother of the saints. It is a holy vein, and the people are not allowed to pick them casually. It is also said that Mount Yanmu on the opposite Mount Ni is also a holy vein, and no grass or tree is allowed to move. There is also a Changping Mountain next to it, which cannot be moved. In short, all the mountains in Qufu are the holy vein of the Kong family, Hujia Mountain, Wulao Peak, and Wuhuading, all the mountains far away from Mount Ni were all designated as forbidden areas by the Kong family, and the people are not allowed to enter.

Not only did they occupy the mountains and forests, the Kong family also forcibly enclosed land.

The servants of the Confucius Mansion got a place with the sign given by the prince. As soon as the sign was inserted, they said that the land belonged to the Confucius Mansion. If the people want to continue renting the seeds, they have to pay the tenant. If they don’t pay it, they will immediately be sold. As long as the cattle and sheep are mistakenly entered the forbidden area, the cattle and sheep will be confiscated, and the cattle and sheep will be killed.

What made Wen Yanjie even more angry was that last month a poor farmer dug a stone in his own field more than half a mile from the foot of Nishan Mountain. As a result, the Kong family learned that it had destroyed the "wind veins" of the Kong family. He captured the poor farmer in the private office of the public office and was detained and beaten for more than a month. Finally, the poor farmer was forced to sell the only five acres of land before he could redeem the person. After he was carried back, the man had been trampled to death and died within two days.

The land was gone and the person died. The poor peasant's wife saw that the people and money were gone, and she was angry and resentful to hang herself. She left behind two girls, the ten-year-old one was sold to someone as a child bride, and the youngest Wen Yanjie originally wanted to adopt it, but she asked someone to look for it several times but disappeared from the world.

"I'll go to the county magistrate to tell the county magistrate, don't break the person." Wen Yanjie felt compassion and immediately found the magistrate Kong Yuanqing and begged him to let the farmer go.

Kong Yuanqing shook his head and said, "If I don't follow the matters assigned by my husband himself, will there be a place for me to gain a foothold in Qufu?"

Wen Yanjie was stuck there and had nothing to say.

Kong Yuanqing asked someone to put a big shackle on the farmer and asked someone to walk around Konglin and nearby villages to show their presence.

Ban Tou asked, "County Master, when will you go to?"

Kong Yuanqing said without thinking: "Travel once a day, travel for three months."

Wen Yanjie was shocked and said, "No! The big shackle weighs fifty or sixty kilograms, and it will take a few more times to swim. This person's waist will definitely be broken in three months!"

"I deserve it. Who asked him to pick up branches in Konglin and ruin the holy vein?"

Kong Yuanqing ignored Wen Yanjie at all, "Go to the Shenggong Mansion with me, and the grandfather asked you to go."

Wen Yanjie was puzzled: "Appoint me to go? Why?"

"Because you are a descendant of Wen Tianxiang."
Chapter completed!